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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. Drawing on the wealth of papers Richter left behind, as well as dozens of interviews with his family and colleagues, Susan Hough takes the reader deep into Richter's complex life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, his academic career, and the history of seismology. Among his colleagues Richter was known as intensely private, passionately interested in earthquakes, and iconoclastic. He was an avid nudist, seismologists tell each other with a grin; he dabbled in poetry. He was a publicity hound, some suggest, and more famous than he deserved to be. But even his closest associates were unaware that he struggled to reconcile an intense and abiding need for artistic expression with his scientific interests, or that his apparently strained relationship with his wife was more unconventional but also stronger than they knew. Moreover, they never realized that his well-known foibles might even have been the consequence of a profound neurological disorder. In this biography, Susan Hough artfully interweaves the stories of Richter's life with the history of earthquake exploration and seismology. In doing so, she illuminates the world of earth science for the lay reader, much as Sylvia Nasar brought the world of mathematics alive in A Beautiful Mind.
Richter scale. --- Seismologists --- Earthquakes. --- Richter, Charles, --- Quakes (Earthquakes) --- Scale, Richter --- Richter, Charles F. --- Richter, C. F. --- Richter, Charles Francis, --- Earth movements --- Natural disasters --- Seismology --- Earthquake magnitude --- Geophysicists --- Measurement --- 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes. --- 1952 Kern County earthquake. --- Active fault. --- Allen Say. --- American Association of Variable Star Observers. --- Another Woman. --- Asperger syndrome. --- Autism. --- Barbara McClintock. --- Benioff. --- Beno Gutenberg. --- Book. --- Boris Podolsky. --- Calculation. --- Career. --- Charles Francis Richter. --- Child abuse. --- Clarence Allen (geologist). --- Classic book. --- Disaster. --- Distrust. --- Dr. Seuss. --- Dysfunctional family. --- Earthquake insurance. --- Earthquake prediction. --- Electra complex. --- Emerging technologies. --- Emotional baggage. --- Ernest Rutherford. --- Female hysteria. --- Field Act. --- Foreshock. --- Freaks. --- Geologist. --- Graduate school. --- Grandparent. --- Hanks. --- Harold Jeffreys. --- Headline. --- Hiking. --- Hiroo Kanamori. --- His Family. --- Hugo Benioff. --- Hypothyroidism. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- IBM Selectric typewriter. --- In Death. --- Inception. --- Incest. --- Indication (medicine). --- Industrial Workers of the World. --- Inge Lehmann. --- Joan Baez. --- Keiiti Aki. --- Lord Byron. --- Luke Jackson (author). --- Margaret Atwood. --- Mark Storey. --- Meanness. --- Modern physics. --- Mount Wilson Observatory. --- Mrs. --- National security. --- Neurosis. --- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. --- Nobel Prize. --- Nuclear family. --- Nuclear winter. --- Obsessive–compulsive disorder. --- Plate tectonics. --- Political correctness. --- Popular Science. --- Prediction. --- Procrastination. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Racism. --- Rain Man. --- Ramapo Fault. --- Richter magnitude scale. --- San Andreas Fault. --- Scientist. --- Seismological Society of America. --- Seismology. --- Seismometer. --- Southern California. --- Supervisor. --- Sylvia Nasar. --- Symptom. --- T. S. Eliot. --- Testimonial. --- The Parliament of Man. --- The Tumor. --- Thomas Wolfe. --- To This Day. --- Total loss. --- Treasure trove. --- Tsunami. --- V. --- Virginia Woolf. --- Writing.
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Arguing that the comic is a quality of literary works of art in other forms as well as comedy, George McFadden finds its essence in the maintenance of some literary feature--a situation, a character--as itself despite threats to alter it.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Comique. --- Comic, The. --- Ludicrous, The --- Ridiculous, The --- Comedy --- Wit and humor --- Absalom and Achitophel. --- Absurdity. --- Aeschylus. --- Ancient Greek comedy. --- Anguish. --- Antinomianism. --- Antithesis. --- Aphorism. --- Apollonian and Dionysian. --- Archetype. --- Aristophanes. --- Aristotle. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Bildungsroman. --- Blaise Cendrars. --- Busybody. --- Classicism. --- Comedy. --- Comic book. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Cynthia's Revels. --- Donald Barthelme. --- Edmund Husserl. --- Envy. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Ethos. --- Existentialism. --- Fabliau. --- Farce. --- Fiction. --- Franz Kafka. --- François Rabelais. --- Gallows humor. --- Genre. --- Good and evil. --- Henri Bergson. --- Hubris. --- Humour. --- Hyperbole. --- Irony. --- Jacques Derrida. --- John Hawkes (novelist). --- Joke. --- Last man. --- Laughter. --- Leveling (philosophy). --- Libido. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Malapropism. --- Max Brod. --- Meanness. --- Melange (fictional drug). --- Metonymy. --- Miasma (Greek mythology). --- Modernity. --- Monomania. --- Narcissism. --- Obscenity. --- Occam's razor. --- Old Comedy. --- Parody. --- Philosophical language. --- Pity. --- Plautus. --- Poetaster. --- Political satire. --- Reality principle. --- Reality. --- Ridicule. --- Roland Barthes. --- Romanticism. --- Satire. --- Schadenfreude. --- Self-Reliance. --- Self-deception. --- Self-interest. --- Sentimentality. --- Seriousness. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Sick comedy. --- Superiority (short story). --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- Terence. --- The Birth of Tragedy. --- The Man of Mode. --- The Praise of Folly. --- The Realist. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Thought. --- Thus Spoke Zarathustra. --- Tragedy. --- Tragic hero. --- Tragicomedy. --- Uriah Heep. --- Utilitarianism. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writing.
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"Northern Arts is a provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries ... Weinstein uses the concept of "breakthrough"--Boundary smashing, restlessness, and the exploding of traditional forms and values-- as a thematic lens through which to expose the rolling energies and violence that courses through Scandinavian literature and art. Defying preconceptions of Scandinavian culture as depressive or brooding, Weinstein invites us to imagine anew this transformative and innovative tradition of art that continually challenges ideas about the sacred and the profane, family and marriage, children, patriarchy, and personal identity."--Back cover.
Arts, Scandinavian --- Scandinavian arts --- Absurdity. --- Ad nauseam. --- Adolf. --- Allegory. --- Alterity. --- An Anthropologist on Mars. --- Astrid Lindgren. --- August Strindberg. --- Barabbas. --- Bela Lugosi. --- Castration anxiety. --- Castration. --- Central conceit. --- Child abandonment. --- Code word (figure of speech). --- Creation myth. --- Criticism. --- Cubism. --- Depiction. --- Despotism. --- Disgust. --- Echo. --- Edgar Allan Poe. --- Edvard Munch. --- Edward Albee. --- Emanuel Swedenborg. --- Enmeshment. --- Erland Josephson. --- Ernst Josephson. --- Evocation. --- Existentialism. --- Explanation. --- Fairy tale. --- Family resemblance. --- Fanny and Alexander. --- Faust. --- Frauenfrage. --- G. (novel). --- Georges Bataille. --- Good and evil. --- Hamlet's Father. --- Hatred. --- Hubris. --- Humiliation. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Incest. --- Infanticide. --- Infatuation. --- Ingmar Bergman. --- Irony. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jean Genet. --- Karl Jaspers. --- Knut Hamsun. --- Libido. --- Literature. --- Little Eyolf. --- Madame Bovary. --- Masturbation. --- Meanness. --- Mills of God. --- Misery (novel). --- Mom and Dad. --- Munch Museum. --- Narrative. --- Negative capability. --- On the Beach (novel). --- Orgy. --- Our Hero. --- Paul Gauguin. --- Pelle the Conqueror. --- Pippi Longstocking. --- Playwright. --- Poetry. --- Pornography. --- Predicament. --- Puffery. --- Religion. --- Ridicule. --- Ronia the Robber's Daughter. --- Rosmersholm. --- Scandinavian literature. --- Superiority (short story). --- Suspension of disbelief. --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- Taunting. --- The Dead Father. --- The Emperor's New Clothes. --- The Ghost Sonata. --- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. --- The Ultimate Truth. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Tragicomedy. --- Two Women. --- Vanitas. --- War. --- Warfare. --- When We Dead Awaken. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writing.
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We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises. Accordingly, his book explores the Fang culture of Gabon as a set of contexts from which emerges the Bwiti religion. In addition to experience with missionary Christianity, Bwiti uses a great reservoir of images and ideas from its own past. Professor Fernandez analyzes how they are recreated into a compelling religious universe, an equatorial microcosm. Part I, a detailed ethnographic account of Fang culture after colonial encounter, addresses the attendant problems. The author discusses the European influence on the self-concept of the Fang, family life and kinship, and political and economic relationships. Part II analyzes in greater detail the religious implications of European administration and missionary efforts. In Part III the author shows how the malaise and increasing isolation of part of Fang culture achieve some assuagement of the Bwiti religion, which seeks a reconciliation of the past and present. James W. Fernandez is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and author of many studies in this discipline. Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Fang (African people) --- Religion. --- Adultery. --- Animal sacrifice. --- Animism. --- Anthropophage. --- Aphorism. --- Apotheosis. --- Approbation. --- Backtracking. --- Bwiti. --- Cannibalism. --- Cardinal virtues. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Celibacy. --- Cemetery. --- Chastity. --- Christianism. --- Creation myth. --- Crime. --- Deal with the Devil. --- Decentralization. --- Deprecation. --- Disparagement. --- Distrust. --- Endogamy. --- Exchange of women. --- Extended family. --- Flagellation. --- Freemasonry. --- French Colonial. --- Gluttony. --- Goliard. --- Good and evil. --- Grandparent. --- Heresy. --- His Favorite. --- Homeopathy. --- Impediment (canon law). --- Incest. --- Infidelity. --- Jerome Bruner. --- Jesuitism. --- MDMA. --- Male dominance (BDSM). --- Manifest destiny. --- Many Marriages. --- Martyr. --- Matthew 25. --- Max Gluckman. --- Meanness. --- Metonymy. --- Missionary. --- Moral suasion. --- Morality play. --- Mutual exclusion. --- Mythology. --- On Religion. --- On the Eve. --- Open society. --- Oppression. --- Our Sons. --- Outer darkness. --- Overcrowding. --- Paganism. --- Peace Corps. --- Persecution. --- Plural society. --- Promiscuity. --- Protestant work ethic. --- Pun. --- Purity and Danger. --- Religio Medici. --- Ritual purification. --- Romanticism. --- Scholasticism. --- Secularism. --- Secularization. --- Self-denial. --- Sense of Place. --- Spirituality. --- Spitting. --- State of the Heart (book). --- Superiority (short story). --- Supplication. --- Swinging (sexual practice). --- Taboo. --- Tattoo. --- The Africans (radio program). --- The Other Hand. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- To This Day. --- Transubstantiation. --- Travels (book). --- Trickster. --- Two-Spirit. --- V. --- Veneration of the dead. --- Warfare. --- White magic. --- Witch doctor. --- Fang (West African people)
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